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Living on Earth: Beyond the Headlines
Peter Dykstra and Host Steve Curwood discuss how street closures in some cities are giving people safer outdoor spaces while practicing corona virus social distancing.
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‘Them plants are killing us’: Inside a cross-border battle against cancer and pollution
This investigation is a cross-border collaboration between The Narwhal and Environmental Health News. SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. — A January storm has covered the bungalows here in sparkling snow. Men wearing gloves and hats pulled over their ears steer snow-blowers in and out of driveways, launching powder into the air. This small city in Michigan’s…
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Derrick Z. Jackson: Fighting for a just COVID-19 response
As much as hurricanes Katrina and Maria upended African American and Latinx families, the landfall of the coronavirus brings a gale of another order. This Category 5 of infectious disease packs the power to level communities already battered from environmental, economic, and health injustice. If response and relief efforts fail to adequately factor in existing…
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Climate change: For big emissions reductions, we need to think small
Small-scale clean energy and low carbon technologies—such as solar panels, smart appliances and electric bicycles—are more likely to push society toward meeting climate goals than large-scale technologies, according to a new study from a team of international researchers. The findings, published today in Science, suggest governments and investors around the world should prioritize small-scale, low…
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Elizabeth Sawin: Steps to re-invigorate the economy must free us from polluting fossil fuels
You’ve seen the headlines: Air pollution is down in places where efforts to limit coronavirus spread have locked down cities and towns. There is nothing to be celebrated about the pandemic. It is creating loss and fear, and the economic disruption is causing terrible hardship for many. At the same time, the pandemic holds up…
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Marc Shaffer, Rachel M. Shaffer: Science saves lives
“Nothing is so frightening as what’s behind the closed door… The audience holds its breath along with the protagonist as she/he (more often she) approaches that door. “The protagonist throws it open, and there is a ten-foot-tall bug. The audience screams, but this particular scream has an oddly relieved sound to it. ‘A bug ten…
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Bringing the wolves back
Let me assume you didn’t come to this page because you lack other options for coronavirus info. Instead, let’s pause to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of an ecological triumph. In the winter of 1995, a remarkable experiment took place in a frigid Yellowstone National Park. Eight wolves, imported from Alberta, were held in the park…
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Paul R. Ehrlich: A pandemic, planetary reckoning, and a path forward
In addition to great concern over the COVID-19 pandemic, I’m also disappointed. For more than half a century, scientists have been expressing concern over the deterioration of what I like to call the “epidemiological environment.” That environment consists of the constellation of circumstances that influence patterns of disease and factors related to health. It includes…
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BPA and babies: Controversial chemical and substitutes pollute the womb
Bisphenol A and its substitute chemicals—pervasive in food and beverage containers, canned goods and store receipts—are showing up in mothers’ wombs at “unexpectedly high levels,” according to a new study published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology. The study builds on previous evidence that BPA and its common replacement BPS can pass through a…
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Op-ed: Coronavirus pandemic—Science sidelined in Trump Rose Garden fiasco
Having paved over the science on pandemics, the Trump administration puts up parking lots. Literally. It wasn’t enough that President Trump’s Rose Garden declaration of a national coronavirus emergency on Friday disintegrated into a self-congratulatory monologue. It wasn’t enough that he trashed reporters who dared ask him if he bore any responsibility for one of…
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